If a company doubled in size overnight that would be a huge red flag. Same thing for shrinking. Sudden scale changes are really really hard to pull off.
I've not seen anything about what they working, or even a break down by department, job role etc.
The only thing was something like "10 managers for every developer", and who knows if that's true.
I'd love to see some stats, but doubt we ever will.
I'd also love to get some responses from the remaining high performing tech talent about their opinion of it all. There was that guy who recently blew a whistle on the spread/blind-eye of bots and he seemed annoyed with the corporate culture.
On the other hand, every thread here and on social media is probably filled with upset people who have been laid off, hoping to swing public perception against New Twitter.
It's as clear as mud!
When I was at Square and Jack was also working at Twitter, he split his days evenly across both companies.
At Square we were frustrated he wasn’t spending enough time on us.
I don’t know what it was like after mid 2017.
Of course the flip side of that is – without these employees you will also not be able to deliver on all these new features. In Twitter's case Elon has decided that whatever new features the previous leadership were cooking are irrelevant now.
However, lack of counterarguments is the weakest form of evidence, and such situations have the annoying property that public opinion is easily swayed and frequently in the wrong direction.
So does anyone positively know that twitter's employees were not doing much useful, or is everyone (including, possibly, Elon Musk) just following their gut feeling?